Camp Lazlo
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Camp Lazlo is an Emmy nominated, American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and currently airs on Cartoon Network. The show features a Boy Scout-like summer camp with a cast of all animal characters, along with a "retro" type of humor and silliness which is akin to Murray's previous series, Rocko's Modern Life (which aired on Nickelodeon a decade earlier). Each episode is split into two parts approximately 11 minutes long. Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence, who did much of the voice work on Rocko's Modern Life, provide lead voices in this show as well, along with veteran voice actors like Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson, Jill Talley, and Alazraqui's Reno 911! co-star, Steve Little. Camp Lazlo premiered on July 8, 2005 with episodes on Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the USA, but as of June 26, 2006, the show airs Monday through Friday at 6:30 PM US ET/PT which is coincidentally the day that Teletoon started airing the show and it airs it at 8:30 ET/PT.
Contents
Characters
Episode Guide
Season One (July-September 2005)
- 01 "Gone Fishin' (Sort of)" / "Beans Are From Mars"
- 10 "Prickly Pining Dining" / "Camp Kidney Stinks"
- 12 "Beans and Pranks" / "Movie Night"
- 13 "The Big Cheese" / "Campers All Pull Pants"
Season Two (October 2005-June 2006)
- 14 "Meatman" / "Hallobeanies"
- 23 "Mascot Madness" / "Tomato Paste"
- 24 "Camp Samson" / "Beany Weenies"
- 25 "There's No Place Like Gnome" / "Hot Spring Fever"
- 26 "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp"
Season Three (July 2006-Present)
- 27 "Seven Deadly Sandwiches"
- 28 "The Big Weigh In" / "Hard Days Sampson"
- 29 "Waiting for Edward" / "Beans in Toyland" (Air Date: July 20, 2006)
- 30 "Where's Clam?" / "Bowling for Dinosaurs" (Air Date: July 26, 2006)
Movies
- M1 "Where's Lazlo?"
Announced Episodes
- 1. Camp Lazlo Thanksgiving Special
- 2. Where's Lazlo?
Camp Lazlo and Rocko's Modern Life
There's a noticeable difference in the two shows content-wise. Rocko's Modern Life was known for its often regular use of dirty humor, and somehow still managed to slip by with a TV-Y rating. In fact, some content of Rocko's Modern Life was so adult-oriented that the clips were pulled off the air. Camp Lazlo has only a little bit of dirty humor, but still has a TV-Y7 rating.There are, however, some similarities:
- Carlos Alazraqui voices the protagonist of this series.
- Also, the main characters are animals.
- The episode "Movie Night" claims that when a little boy becomes a big boy, the planets align and alter their very being. A similar concept was once used in Rocko's Modern Life, for when turtles become adults.
- In the Rocko's Modern Life episode Floundering Fathers, a character resembling Lazlo is seen in the back of the parade, only he is a female and wearing white and green clothes.
- The first half-hour episode occurred in the second seasons.
- Both series (so far) are divided into 13 episode seasons.
Awards
The series won three 2006 Puncinella Awards for Best Animated Series for Children and Best Animated Series for all ages and Lazlo was the winner of Best Character at the 10th Cartoons By The Bay Festival in Postino, Italy. It was the second consecutive year that a Cartoon Network series won the latter two awards, as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Blooregard Q. Kazoo won the awards the year before."Hello Dolly / Over Cooked Beans" has been nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) category.
Trivia
- After Edward is cheering, for some reason, Raj is cheering even though he's supposed to be the act.
- In Mascot Madness there is a place called Madison Squirrel Garden which is a reference to New York's Madison Square Garden.
- In "Camp Samson" when Edward tells Samson he's on the ads it say Murray's Taxidermy.
- In "Camp Samson", Edward told Samson that the bear camper had no name. However, he does have a name and his name is Gordon.
- The main theme song plays on the children's song "B-I-N-G-O".
- The Dung Twins' heights are 6'1".
- The Lemming quadruplets have two moms and two dads.
- Two of the episodes ("Parasitic Pal" and "Loogie Llama") featured songs that were sung by the same person and had the same melody, tempo, etc.
- In "The Weakest Link", the "Big, Hairy Mountain Man" has the same voice as Eduardo of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, as both were voiced by Tom Kenny.
- The episode "It's No Picnic" was first broadcast on the afternoon of July 8, 2005: the same day that the first episode premiered.
- A Game Boy Advance game called "" has been scheduled for release in August 2006.
- Some songs in Camp Lazlo came from SpongeBob SquarePants and other shows.,
- In "Prodigious Clamus," Lumpus states that the puzzles he handed to the scouts (to solve in a few seconds to find out the camp's genius) had 1000 pieces, however, the puzzle boxes read "500" pieces. Also, when Clam was blowing a bottle, a choir in the background was singing "Ode to Joy".
- Edward is the youngest camper at Camp Kidney, according to "Movie Night".
- The show's first half-hour episode (not being shown as two separate episodes), "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp" aired on June 29, 2006 in the USA.
- Camp Kidney Bean Scouts have hand-me-down uniforms and in "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp", Camp Kidney is obviously inferior to the other camps.
- The totem pole in Jelly Bean cabin has a monkey, an elephant, and a rhino in descending order.
- In "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp", Chef McMuesli is seen tied to the back of a truck and yelling, "Somebody call the cops!"
- In "Prodigious Clamus," Slinkman claims that there are fourteen campers when there are really nineteen.
- At the end of the episode "Camp Sampson" it shows Sampson extremely overdosing on his medications, however, almost halfway past the clip, a red box says "Warning: do not use health buddies in this manner". At the end of the clip, Sampson falls over and yells "awwwwww nerts!"
Crew
- Brian A. Miller producer
- Joe Murray producer / executive producer / creator
- Mark O'Hare producer
- Merriwether Williams story editor
- Martin Olson writer
- Steve Little writer
- Kaz writer / storyboard
- Shareena Carlson producer
External links
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